Hoppe now Brough: Back at Middlesbrough FC

Huntelaar helps with good press.

 

Just one game in the Bundesliga today: Schalke 04 v Hertha Berlin at 12:00 eastern. Some (3, so far) Schalke players tested positive for Covid this week, but the game will still be played today, apparently.

Hoppe starts!!!

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*crosses fingers our Hoppe scores*

 

Finally, Hoppe starts next to another center forward!!

 

Hoppe to it, young man!

 

Schalke lost 1-2, but Hoppe went the full distance (Huntelaar lasted 77').

 

Hoppe looked rusty today.

For someone who moves as well as he does, he has to learn how to be more purposeful in his runs. And he needs to bulk up.

 

Well, this was a throwaway game. Didn't matter.

 

So so silly.

Poor Hoppe.

 

60' gone and I tuned in on 40'. Hoppe is looking very, very good: an excellent assist for Schalke's 3rd goal - no Virginia, that's not a typo - and a very good hockey assist on Schalke's equalizer.

He's playing a bit deep, as a secondary striker/attacking midfielder behind Hunter and he looks full of menace.

Edit:
65' gone and Hoppe makes it 4-2 with a very well-taken goal. Flick sprang Frankfurt's Kamikaze-like high press with a clever backheel, erm . . . flick on the halfway and Matt ran straight and true, unopposed, to finish with a well angled shot to the far post. With so much time to think, a lot of strikers would have choked, but he was very calm and composed.

 

Hoppe scores!

 

This is really something. Arguably the worst Bundesliga team in 30 years vs a team still very much in contention for a Champions League spot heading into the final week of action. And Schalke are up 4-2.

 

Le Goal:
https://streamja.com/0P4bA

 

Where there's Hoppe, there's life

 

I don't think any other YA has, except for Eric Wynalda.

 

Big clubs are watching.

 

Good for Hoppe. More goals than Sargent.

 

Ah yes, you're right. I had it in my mind that Wynalda was the only YA that had ever scored more than 5, but I must have been thinking of American born/raised players.

 

Believe he has an assist today- so 6g and 1a. Right?

 

And zero own goals

Take a look when Hoppe decided when and how to shoot!
Anwser: at the ********ing Halfline!

Bring goalie left, slide with right. Almost pulisic vs. man City last year goal.